NEW DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 21: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley arrives at Parliament from the Patiala Court after filling defamation cases against AAP leaders on December 21, 2015 in New Delhi, India. As pressure mounted on it for early passage of the Juvenile Justice Bill, the government today listed the crucial legislation in Rajya Sabha for passage tomorrow and blamed Congress for blocking it in the past due to its obstructionist politics even when it was listed on 15 occasions. (Photo by Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley faces a tough task of balancing the needs of farm sector as well as the industry when he presents his third Budget today, seeking to garner resources to boost public spending for higher growth amid global headwinds.

Hansal Mehta's Aligarh, starring Manoj Bajpayee and Rajkummar Rao, is not playing in theatres in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. While this 'ban' is not official, a Times of India report says the city's mayor Shakuntala Bharti has "mounted a protest against its screening". Read this to know why.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art Of Living foundation has been fined Rs 120 crore for damaging the endangered ecology of Yamuna. According to a report, a panel found that the World Culture Festival that the foundation is slated to organise will cause grievous harm to the Yamuna flood plains.

A political party was launched in the name of former President APJ Abdul Kalam in Tamil Nadu. After paying tributes at Kalam's samadhi, V Ponraj, who was scientific adviser to Kalam, announced the name of the party as Abdul Kalam Vision India Party’ and hoisted its flag.

In a shocking incident, a 35-year-old man allegedly killed 14 of his family members and then committed suicide in Thane. The police suspect property dispute to be the reason for the murders.

Opinion

As Haryana is showing, without concerted action, India could face a backlash from the growing numbers of disgruntled, unemployed or unemployable youth that will emerge as has already been witnessed in many other parts of India. So India, too, must grow rich before it grows old. For that to happen, increased investments in education and health must be central to its public policy, write Siddharth Chatterjee and Unni Karunakara in the Hindustan Times.

Send Delhi’s nationalist lawyers to the Kashmir front to do some real soldiering, writes Julio Ribeiro in The Indian Express. “If shouting slogans against the injustices of the caste system or against the perceived inequalities suffered by the poor in our land is interpreted as being anti-national, I am afraid that many, many more students, activists and others crying out for justice are going to be branded in a similar manner. That is totally unacceptable.”

Huge amounts of money have been spent in repetitive water quality surveys, even though the results are already well-documented. Also, the Government has often entrusted pseudo-environmentalists, who have zero knowledge of hydraulics and the science of water-flow, or non-environmental engineers and technologists, with decision-making in matters related to the cleaning of the river. Consequently, there has been little improvement in the health of the Ganga, writes Devendra S Bhargava in The Pioneer.